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I was driving on a street in a residential area and my Jeep started to jerk all of a sudden. I was no longer able to accelerate. This started happening in may and the last time is happened was June 22 2020. Jeep needs to put out a recall asap!
I was turning onto my street and my wheels locked up. I parked car (my son was in the back 3.9 years old) and noticed smoke under the hood, opened the hood and saw a huge fire. Went to store so had water - poured 6 water bottles on the fire to put it out. Consumer stated incident occurred 5 hours after the oil change that day.
Driving on hwy 90 for an hour going 70mph. Loud whining sound started coming from the engine then transmission temperature light came on and vehicle started slowing down even with trying to keep speed. Speed kept decreasing so I pulled over for 20 minutes and went home.
The contact owns a 2015 Jeep Patriot. The contact stated that while driving at various speeds, the vehicle loss motive power and stalled without warning. The vehicle was taken to Dodge Chrysler Jeep Ram of winter haven (299 cypress gardens blvd, winter haven, fl 33880) however, the mechanic was unable to duplicate the failure. The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The vehicle was not repaired. The failure mileage was 59,000.
My car was in motion and I lost power while merging onto the highway and I was unable to get the car started back up. I got the car towed and when it arrived at the mechanic it started back up just fine, they were unable to duplicate the issue as no error message was on my dashboard, therefore their diagnostic device could not figure out what caused my car to stall. The mechanic kept my car for a while and it finally gave out on them again and they discovered by throttle body had gone out. I had this issue in may of 2017 and had it fixed at a Jeep dealership and less than 3 years later my car has the very same issue.
- Bedford, TX, USA
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When you accelerate the transmission slips. It doesn't do it all the time but at least 50-60% of the time. It started under the warranty and I had a Dodge dealership look at it and they said they felt it slip but the road was wet so they couldn't say if it was the tranny or the tires slipping on the wet pavement. It has been slipping for the last year at least. After talking to other people who have these Patriots they said the same thing (transmission slipping). It does it during acceleration.
Catastrophic failure of throttle control while driving down the highway. Vechile began to sputter and immediately flashed the lightning bolt warning light dropping from 80mph to 10 mph. This was associated with the vechile violently sputtering. Vechile will start but when drive is engaged at low RPM nothing happens. With acceleration the car will sputter and not get past 15 miles per hour. During sputtering no power steering is avalible and braking is made difficult with sputtering.
The crankshaft sensor failed causing the engine to stop while driving without warning on a city street in boston. The car was brought to the nearest garage where they replaced the crankshaft position sensor and camshaft position sensor, but then an engine code came up saying that the accelerator pedal also needed to be replaced. I am unsure if this was related to the crankshaft sensor issue or just a coincidence. The car then had to be towed to a Jeep dealer to replace the accelerator pedal and relearn the sensors. I noticed there was a recall on 2016 Jeep Patriots for the same crankshaft problem but no recall has been issued for the same problem occurring in 2015 Jeep Patriots. The engine died without warning and it is fortunate that this happened at ~20mph, it would have been disastrous at highway speeds.
On March 8, 2019, while driving at approximately 45 mph on a rural road, the engine stalled causing the car to lose power steering and the rpms to drop to 0. there was no check engine light indication that anything was wrong. On this occasion I was unable to restart the vehicle and had it towed to the dealership for repairs. The dealership stated that the battery failed diagnostic tests and replaced the battery. On March 22, 2019 while idling at a red light, the engine stalled again causing the rpms to drop to 0. I attempted to restart the vehicle and after two attempts the vehicle restarted and a check engine light was illuminated. I was able to drive to the nearest dealership where it was diagnosed that the camshaft/crankshaft sensor was malfunctioning. After subsequent research I located safety recall S89 / NHTSA 16-V-907 crankshaft camshaft sensor wire harness issued in February 2017 affecting 2016 Dodge journey, 2016 Jeep compass and 2016 Jeep Patriot.
While I am driving, the car stops running., the engine cuts off. I have to put the car in park or neutral to restart the engine. Sometimes it will start up sometimes I have to wait on it to starts. Today it stopped in the middle of the street and it did not start back up..the car had to be pushed out the street. My Jeep will stop on the expressway while driving up to speed, it will stop on rural streets and while turning left or right it will shut down in the middle of the turn..this is extremely dangerous because it only shuts down when the car is in motion. This has been happening for 3 months.
While driving I made a right turn and then the "tire light" began to flash and a warning sound was heard then the "traction control light" began to flash and alert sound was heard and then a "red lightning bolt" warning light was flashing on the dashboard and the "engine light" turned on, all lights were lit up and the engine stalled and couldn't get passed 20mph even thought the accelerator was almost to the floor. The vehicle has only less than 32000 miles, and has had its regular maintenance. I've seen several similar complaints on Jeep Patriot forums and seen that the 2014 and 2016 had recalls for this or related issue. When stopping the vehicle idles high and still moves even though the brake is fully pressed, and the temperature rises fast. I was driving at night on a city street so luckily the wasn't much traffic. The lights came on before I lost engine power and I shut off the vehicle and turned it back on and they went away but that didn't happen the second time it occurred, the lights stayed on and that's when I also lost engine power and the vehicle would stall. Moves fine in reverse but because the vehicle is idling really high it takes off in reverse by itself without using the accelerator.
When driving at normal highways speeds for extended periods the transmission temp warning light will come on and slow the vehicle speed to 40mph or less and if you do not pull the vehicle over and shut it off it will lose all power to the transmission and the vehicle will stop moving totally. This has happened several times, the first being a two hour trip from chesapeake Virginia to richmond. We took the highway and maintained the speed limit of 55-70 mph as posted and about one hour into our journey the vehicle lost power abruptly and slowed to 40 mph while we were traveling 70 in the left lane and then totally lost all forward travel almost causing us to be slammed into by an 18 wheeler. The most recent time was two days ago July 18,2018. We were driving to Connecticut from chesapeake Virginia and about three and half hours into our journey the transmission temp warning light came on and the vehicle within less than 2 minutes had lost all forward motion leaving us stuck in the left lane on the New Jersey turnpike for atleast half an hour while cars zoomed by. We were traveling the posted speed limit of 65 mph. Then again a few hours later in the trip it did the exact same thing. I called the dealership and they said that it's stated in the owners manual that this will happen. I find it extremely frustrating that they are able to sell a car that under normal operating conditions will just shut down! this is not an isolated incident with the Patriot and after some research it seems Jeep no longer puts the cvt transmission in the Patriot due to this exact problem. I googled this and there are so many forums where people are so frustrated that Jeep is able to sell this lemon. We've taken it to a mechanic and they agree this is a problem that can't be fixed as it's a cvt transmission design flaw and our only course of action is to put a brand ne transmission in.fixthis!
Takata recall there is a clunking noise in the front end while driving over bumps and the transmission is slipping while accelerating from a stop is when I notice it the mostly.
We own a 2015 Jeep Patriot, bought used in 2016. It now has about 75,000 miles on it and has served us well. That is, until the beginning of December. My husband heard an odd squeaking sound in the rear, and took it to our local mechanic (who is sae certified, and has worked as a service manager for both Chrysler and Ford) thinking that maybe we just needed more body clips on the bumper. After driving it around the block the mechanic thought it sounded more like worn shocks, so they put it up on the rack. Good thing we didn't wait much longer to bring it in, because the left rear axle was breaking loose from the frame the welding was still intact, but right beside the welding is a large break. And of course, several other parts are broken as well. Neither my husband nor the mechanic saw any signs of impact anywhere down there. There were no large dents, marks, protruding or bulging metal members of the vehicle's frame, bent or contorted axle members or twisted or torn parts of the chassis. Neither do we have any recollection of running over anything, or being hit by something. Our mechanic's take away was that this was a factory issue and needed to be handled by Jeep. But neither the dealership nor Jeep customer service are helping. This should still be covered by the power train warranty. But they won't take responsibility for it. My biggest concern is that this is not going to be the only Jeep Patriot that this happens to. If this is indeed a factory or material defect, then somewhere down the road someone else will have this happen and they might not be so fortunate as to discover it before the axle does fall off and cause injury or fatality.
I want ro know why the crank sensor isnt a recall. Mine went out this morning and luckily I was in my neighborhood and not on the hwy. It's dangerous and my car just cut off on me. I read this morning and there is quite of few people that had the same issue. There could be parents out there with a car full of kids and it could be extremely hot or cold outside. There should be a recall on this item for safety.
On 5 occasions when driving the car around 70mph, the car starts to decelerate on its own with no indicators on the vehicle showing any issues. The vehicle will not accelerate over 55mph - you have to undertake an emergency move into an inside lane in order to be in a safe location and even when pressing the accelerator pedal it will not go over 55mph. After a few minutes the car will then start to accelerate again. On multiple occasions, it has almost created a S situation where the car has been hit from behind my vehicles behind due to the sudden deceleration. The vehicle has been take into the Jeep dealership and they have not been able to diagnose the issue with the vehicle or reproduce it.
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- Nashville, TN, USA